Southwest Giving Passengers on Deadly Flight $5000 for Compensation

Southwest Giving Passengers on Deadly Flight $5000 for Compensation Passengers on Flight 1380 have been receiving checks as a gesture of goodwill from the airline. Southwest Airlines, in a letter Southwest Airlines, in a letter Passengers have also received a $1,000 voucher for travel on Southwest. On Tuesday, Dallas-bound Southwest Flight 1380 took off from New York and made an emergency landing in Philadelphia following an engine explosion, which resulted in one death. The National Transportation Safety Board is looking into metal fatigue and a cracked fan blade.